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pleading. This barbarous phrase of old French, which is the same with encore pret, yet ready, is used in a plea in bar to an action of debt on a bond due at a day past; when the defendant pleads a tender on the day it became due, and adds that he is uncore prit, still ready to pay the same. … [Read more...] about UNCORE PRIT

The brother of one's father or mother. … [Read more...] about UNCLE

In Saxon law. Unknown; a stranger. A person entertained in the house of another was, on the flrst night of his entertainment, so called. Bract, fol. 124b. … [Read more...] about UNCUTH

A legal doctrine preventing a plaintiff who has acted improperly, illegally or unethically from bringing and winning a lawsuit to recover damages as if he or she had acted properly. For example, a service provider is suing a customer who refused to pay for work that the contractor performed but with recklessness and without care. … [Read more...] about UNCLEAN HANDS

Of which she has nothing. When no dower had been assigned to the widow during the time prescribed by law, she could, at common law, sue out a writ of dower unde nihil habet. … [Read more...] about UNDE NIHIL HABET